21 AUGUST 1869, page 3

The International Boat Race Is Fixed For Friday Next, The

27th, and not the 25th, as we said last week, at 5 o'clock. As we ex- pected, the opinion has been changing during the past week until - the chances are regarded as nearly even,......

Dr. Selwyn Has Not Succeeded At All As A Spiritual

Peer, his greatest speech having been a most rambling, incoherent affair, and be does not seem very likely to succeed as a leader within the the Church. In a Visitation Address,......

The Prince Imperial Has Performed One Of The Functions Of

royalty for the first time. Napoleon, being unable to pass his fete "in the midst of his , great military family " at Chalons, sent his son, now thirteen years of age. The child......

The Bank Of England Has Reduced Its Rate Of Discount

to 24 per cent., and this in the face of a harvest believed to be below the average, and a consequent certainty that millions must be spent upon foreign wheat. The accumulation......

The British Alliance With Burmah Seems To Be Doing An

infinity of mischief with no corresponding good. The Burmese are very discontented with their King, who is a sort of rough copy of Ismail Pacha of Egypt, and treats his kingdom......

Mr. Henry D. Jencken, Barrister-at-law, Apparently A...

employed in settling some lawsuits in Spain; must be a person capable of singular " detachment" of mind. His vigorous advocacy of his own side had offended some of his......

Members Of Parliament Are Threatened With A New And Most

frightful danger, much worse than the explosion in the crypt which is to blow them into the air. A mechanician named Gensoul has invented a machine which reports speeches......

A Breach-of-promise Case Was Tried At Liverpool On The 17th

- inst. which is curiously characteristic of English manners. The defendant, Mr. J. E. Thompson, son of a large shipbuilder in Sunderland, was engaged to a Miss Fleming,......

The Austrian Government Has Agreed To The Dissolution By...

of the Croatian military colonies. These colonies are set- tled by soldiers, who remain under military law, receive some military pay, and can, when needful, turn out an army of......

Consols Were On Friday Evening 92{ To 93.

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